[Haskell-cafe] Views

Johannes Waldmann waldmann at imn.htwk-leipzig.de
Sun Sep 14 08:08:37 EDT 2008


> I think the crux of
> the matter was that a monad is too general. Either there is a result or
> there is not. That's precisely the intended use of a Maybe.

Indeed "Monad m =>" is dangerous here
because not every Monad has a reasonable definition of "fail".

But that seems to be a problem in the (current) definition of "Monad",
and its solution was "MonadZero", no?

J.W.

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